Hi! First time I do a mix, I have several electric guitar tracks. I recorded them with th3 plugin amp simulator. The output of the plugin was set up almost at maximum when recorded. Now the guitar sound look ok to me, but I have a few peaks on the volume bar so I reduced the volume from the faders of each track so it doesn’t reach the red.
Now in each track the gain is set at 0. I have read that a gain staging should be done, it seems that to balance the gain I have to turn off the effects and eqs on each track and put the fader and gain to 0 as a start, then play the guitar tracks and adjust the gain (not the faders) to be roughly between -18 and -12/-6 (peak) db on the fader meter. After this adjustment I should then enable effects and eqs and when you do this it will take more room and unbalancing the meter again, so at this point the output in the plugin should be adjusted to again stay between -18 and -12/-6 db . It’s this procedure correct? Is it necessary? Because of course I set up the guitar sound from plugin amp with the gain I like, when then I adjust the gain from cakewalk consol of course it takes the gain down or up of the guitar, so then I have to readjust the gain on the amp again to reach the sound I created before. Hence, a bit messy and long procedure. Is it good practice to do gain balancing this way? Or I can just keep the gain at 0 and use the fader in order to not reach the peak?
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Marcello
Hi! First time I do a mix, I have several electric guitar tracks. I recorded them with th3 plugin amp simulator. The output of the plugin was set up almost at maximum when recorded. Now the guitar sound look ok to me, but I have a few peaks on the volume bar so I reduced the volume from the faders of each track so it doesn’t reach the red.
Now in each track the gain is set at 0. I have read that a gain staging should be done, it seems that to balance the gain I have to turn off the effects and eqs on each track and put the fader and gain to 0 as a start, then play the guitar tracks and adjust the gain (not the faders) to be roughly between -18 and -12/-6 (peak) db on the fader meter. After this adjustment I should then enable effects and eqs and when you do this it will take more room and unbalancing the meter again, so at this point the output in the plugin should be adjusted to again stay between -18 and -12/-6 db . It’s this procedure correct? Is it necessary? Because of course I set up the guitar sound from plugin amp with the gain I like, when then I adjust the gain from cakewalk consol of course it takes the gain down or up of the guitar, so then I have to readjust the gain on the amp again to reach the sound I created before. Hence, a bit messy and long procedure. Is it good practice to do gain balancing this way? Or I can just keep the gain at 0 and use the fader in order to not reach the peak?
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